Under the auspices of "protecting clients from criminal activity," JPMorgan Chase has decided to impose capital controls on . As WSJ reports, following the bank's ATM modification to enable $100-bills to be dispensed with no limit, some customers started pulling out tens of thousands of dollars at a time. This apparent bank run has prompted Jamie Dimon to cap ATM withdrawals at $1,000 per card daily for non-customers.
Submitted by Thad Beversdorf of First Rebuttal
Why FINRA’s Private Court Just Got Served
Having slashed rates below zero and unleashed various rounds of asset-purchases, the Riksbank (Denmark's central bank) recently warned the rest of the world that "we have reached the limits of monetary policy." Now, however, Denmark's Systemic Risk Council has raised the financial system warning level to DEFCON1, warning that low levels of interest rates have led to excessive risk-taking and risk illusion among borrowers and credit institutions...
Deutsche Bank may have gotten the corporate bond QE from the ECB that it so desired (even if it means another drop in negative rates) even if that did not help its stock rebound anywhere near to pre-crash levels, and its economist department may be gripped by a bout of raging schizhophrenia as erstwile permabull Joa LaVorgna is now one of the market's bigger bears contrasted with super optimistic DB strategist Torsten Slok (who is seemingly unaware of what his year end bonus was) but that doesn't prevent the bank from having a very outlook of where the market will be come the November gener
Authored by StraightLineLogic.com's Robert Gore via The Burning Platform blog,
Some reversals of financial trends prove so momentous they define the generation in which they occur. The stock market crash in 1929 kicked off the Great Depression, which ushered in the welfare and then the warfare state and redefined the relationship between government and citizens.